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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Google Authenticator] Locked out of WordPress!Thanks Harrison, excellent advice. I just upgraded my iPhone from 5 to 5s and this process kills the connection to the plugin.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: visual editor gone after upgraded to 3.1.1I have similar problem to hozyali, but maybe not exactly. The HTML editor is there with its own buttons, but when I click on the Visual tab, it doesn’t load the WYSIWG toolbar and it shows me html code.
I found that on one of my blogs this was caused by Firebug in Firefox. I turned off Firebug and the Visual editor came back.
But I edited a different blog in Firefox and several other browsers and the Visual editor is just not there.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: akismet and other plugins not appearing in DashboardJust to clarify…I have successfully upgraded to WordPress 3.0 and Thesis Theme 1.7 (on cobbsblog.com/blog). Switching themes and ‘resetting’ plugins has not solved the problem. My blog is “up” but I am missing some functionality from the ‘lost’ plugings, notably Akismet for spam protection (I canNOT believe the stupid stuff these WordPress spammers try–they seriously need to get a life).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: akismet and other plugins not appearing in DashboardWell, nothing is working so far. I have done a complete manual upgrade (including wp-admin and wp-includes) to 3.0 but certain plugins are still not appearing.
Come to think of it, the “missing” plugins are ones that I have tried to auto-update.
When I try to update a plugin I am asked from my ftp credentials, which I provide. But the response is an error.
And then when I try to delete a plugin, I am also asked from my ftp creds and get an error, like this:
“Plugin could not be deleted due to an error: Could not fully remove the plugin(s) cforms/cforms.php.”
In fact, none of the files for the ‘removed’ plugin appear to have been deleted. So I have numerous plugins that are still on my server but not in my Dashboard.
Uploading a fresh version of the plugin does not fix this.
Any ideas much appreciated…Stephen
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: akismet and other plugins not appearing in Dashboardesmi — thanks for the suggestions. Will be trying them as time permits and will report back if I come up with a diagnosis, in case anyone else has this problem.
Cheers…Stephen
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Send users to a “thank you” page – contact form 7Sorry Kelton, maybe I didn’t make this clear in my post: we’ve been trying to get this to work, exactly as you and others here have described, but as of now it is not working. We have the right code string in the footer file and in the C7 Additional Settings field but the form does not take the user anywhere.
From reading this page for the third time, it seems we are not the only ones having this problem. Further, and I think this is the point about “Thank You page as a feature” — If the developer doesn’t think it is a good idea in the first place, then it is unlikely to get supported, beyond a “workaround” that does not seem to work for some people.
It is clear that takayukister is an awesome programmer and in many ways it is amazing to me that code as cool as Contact 7 is available at no charge, but it is hard to think of a commercial site that doesn’t want and need a Thank You page to track metrics (e.g. we are installing a very powerful PPC optimization tool called ClickEquations that works great when there is a Thank You page. No Thank You page means a complex workaround and inflexibility at best.
Regardless, I thank you for responding and letting everyone know what is working for you. It means we may yet be able to figure out how to get it working for us and avoid replacing takayukister’s plugin which, in all other respects is the best WordPress form plugin we have found.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Send users to a “thank you” page – contact form 7We’re with zimaron. Please add this functionality! We will up our donation for sure.
We have spent many hours trying to get past this problem on our corporate site and are about to switch to a WordPress form plug-in other than Contact 7.
IMHO, the lack of a Thank You is just too large a gap in functionality for 90 percent of form users who want to track submission easily, especially those who want to use something OTHER than Google Analytics.
Sigh. I find it hard to believe that the obviously talented and very gifted developer of Contact 7 is deliberately trying to unilaterally change the way the world uses contact forms. Maybe that is not his intent.
Having spent more than 20 years working with user interfaces I have to say I don;t think the way that Contact 7 normally handles the input response is an improvement over a Thank You page, regardless of the tracking issue. On our B2B site we get people submitting the form multiple times BECAUSE they expected a Thank You page response and did not get one.
Like Patricklondon, wWe have tried the workaround but without any success so far. We are days away from dropping this plug-in.
Sigh!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Help: Permanlinks broke my linksThanks Shane. I think the problem was my .htaccess file. For one thing it was located in wp-admin directory. I moved it to the blog root and it seems to be working.
I also had the syntax of the custom permalink entered wrong but fixing that did not fix the problem so I’m thinking it was the .htaccess.
I don’t normally panic but this one was weird, totally hiding my pages for a while there.
Thanks for the prompt response.
S.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Sudden Fatal error: Call to undefined functionOn top of all that, I can’t use the WordPress database backup plugin because wp-admin is broken and I don’t have phpMyAdmin or MySQL Administrator installed.
So, this problem is probably going to cost me my evening.
Not happy, and still think it is a serious problem that I could be using it one day and not the the next. Something changed from yesterday to today.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Sudden Fatal error: Call to undefined functionThanks for fast reply — but I am concerned that this error suddenly appeared. Can’t understand why it was working one day but not the next.
Will read up on manual update, obviously going to have to live without the control panel and changes to blog posts until it is fixed. That is a HUGE pain because I live in a rural area with a terrible satellite connection so I have to drive to town and sit in the WiFi cafe while I do this. And my boss is not going to be happy if the next post is not up before noon tomorrow.
Feel like asking for my donation back from the person who wrote the automatic upgrade software that apparently failed.
Stephen
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Sudden Fatal error: Call to undefined functionSorry, hist Post before finished describing problem. When I say “Have not changed files” I mean that I have not messed with the install since the last time things worked fine, which was yesterday when I posted a new post. All was looking fine for 24 hours or so, then I tried to log in and boom, nada.
Stephen
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Blog disappeared (General Settings corrupted?)I found this page:
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Changing_The_Site_URL
and sure enough, the Quick Fix worked.
Thanks WordPress!!